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New Article: Rural Inequalities in Britain
A new open-access article in Rural History asks what histories of class look like in rural Britain, and why rural inequality persists.
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New Book Chapter: Enclosures and the Making of Modern Britain
My chapter in The Modern World After Colonialism (Bristol University Press, 2026) reads English and colonial enclosures together to rethink the making of modern Britain.
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New Article: A Licence to Kill
In a new open-access article in Antipode, Bev Skeggs and I examine the death of Awaab Ishak and the necroeconomics of Britain’s housing crisis.
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The British Library Keynote Lecture with Dr Chantelle Lewis
Living the wake of Colonial Capitalism: Racism, Poverty, Class and Struggle Chantelle Lewis and I collaborated in this keynote lecture/conversation hosted by the Identities journal and the British Library. We presented a chronology of race and class through histories of both oppression and resistance in Britain and across the Empire – and it has now…
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Lancaster Girls Grammar School and the Slavery Family Trees Community Project
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: Harry Yearnshire (Head of History, Lancaster Girls Grammar School) Alongside four students from Lancaster Girls Grammar School (LGGS) students – Jasmine Patel, Emma Chandler, Emily Yates and Bella Tyler – that have been involved with the Lancaster Black History Group (LBHG) Slavery ‘Family Trees’ research project have benefited…
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Slavery Family Trees Exhibition at Lancaster University Library 1-31st May 2023
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: https://imogentyleruk.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/lbh-1-1.jpeg This exhibition was first displayed at Lancaster City Museum in the summer and autumn of 2023, and we are pleased that it has now travelled to the University Library. It is one of the outcomes of the first phase of the Slavery Family Trees project, funded by…
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Doing Anti-Racism. With Imogen Tyler, Geraldine Onek and Jasmine Patel
Originally posted on LANCASTER BLACK HISTORY GROUP: An LBH Podcast How are racism and stigma power linked? How can education empower us to face the past and tell new stories? And why must we break historical silences? Sociologist Imogen Tyler talks to fellow activists from Lancaster Black History Group, formed after a Black Lives Matter…
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Revolting Subjects Redux
Revolting: Verb: The action of revolt; apostasy; rebellion, insurrection; Adjective: That [which] evokes revulsion; repulsive, disgusting. Noun: That which is revolting; revoltingness. (abridged from the Oxford English Dictionary, 2012) A decade ago I published my first sole authored book, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain (2013). The forms of social violence, disenfranchisement,…
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How the British Nationality Act 1981 laid the foundations for a stateless population within Britain’s borders
Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University who talks about how the changes to nationality legislation through BNA 1981 set the stage for people to be born stateless within the UK’s borders and explores how nationality legislation is designed to
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Stigma Machines
I have been asked a few times recently to reflect on the concept of stigma machines which is central to my new book, this extract from the concluding chapter (‘Rage against the Stigma Machines”) of Stigma: the Machinery of Inequality offers a little context about the genealogy of this concept in my work. ‘Rage against…
